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I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.

Sarah Zettel

Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.

Dennis Potter

People say that I'm always late, but that's a myth.

Milla Jovovich

Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.

Paul Ricoeur

I would be copping out if I stayed in the myth of the '60s.

Jerry Rubin

Famous Myth Authors

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Thomas Mann

George Weinberg

Diana Wynne Jones

Minoru Yamasaki

Leon Trotsky

Claude Vorilhon

Frank Herbert

Jeffrey Hunter

Roland Barthes

Barry Commoner

Arthur M. Schlesinger

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All Myth Quotes

In the most important sense a creationist is a person who believes in creation, and that includes people who believe that Genesis is a myth and that creation involved a process called evolution and consumed billions of years.

Phillip E. Johnson

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There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.

W. Averell Harriman

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Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

Michael Shermer

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It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.

Bob Kane

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A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.

David Antin

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Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.

Brad Holland

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As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.

James Ellroy

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And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette.

Minoru Yamasaki

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